The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 22
... possible had our subject been alive . In the opening lines of this chapter I wrote that Johnson was a perturbed man . I am convinced that he suffered from serious mental disturbances . This conviction will be disagreeable to many of ...
... possible had our subject been alive . In the opening lines of this chapter I wrote that Johnson was a perturbed man . I am convinced that he suffered from serious mental disturbances . This conviction will be disagreeable to many of ...
Page 112
... possible in an analogous way to iden- tify resistance psychisms besides a resistant attitude ? Resistance psychisms do exist , but I do not need them for my present discussion . It is sufficient to refer to my article " Défense et ...
... possible in an analogous way to iden- tify resistance psychisms besides a resistant attitude ? Resistance psychisms do exist , but I do not need them for my present discussion . It is sufficient to refer to my article " Défense et ...
Page 158
... possible . The neurotic is bogged down deeper and deeper in these fictions , for confrontation with reality is avoided more and more through defence . For example , an individual who for neurotic reasons no longer wants to experience ...
... possible . The neurotic is bogged down deeper and deeper in these fictions , for confrontation with reality is avoided more and more through defence . For example , an individual who for neurotic reasons no longer wants to experience ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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